( Court cases here, not conspiracy: )
Republicans and MAGA cult members crying about fake news and election tampering.
Here is the truth , verifiable and accurate:
they are the fake news sources AND the Russian hacker enablers. It serves their Christo-fascist goals of control.
Jesse Benton, a Republican operative with ties to Trump’s campaigns,
was convicted
for arranging at least $25,000 in contributions to Trump’s campaign from Russian national
Roman Vasilenko.
It was $100,000, but he greedily pocketed $75K of it, so
Trump left him hanging.
He was
found guilty
of concealing it illegally and concealing its foreign origin. The small amount was all that could be 100% verified. The cash and mail bribes are an unknown amount.
He was convicted on six counts (conspiracy to solicit/contribute as a foreign national, conduit contributions, falsifying records) in 2022.
He destroyed most of the records that would prove even worse dealings.
In April 2024, the appeals
court upheld his conviction.
Politico
The case shows that some GOP operatives have been directly involved in shady
foreign money routing tied to Russian sources
(money that fuels
propaganda,
vindictive
hateful digital ops, and
influence campaigns aimed at the uneducated).
In September 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed the indictment of two more Russian nationals (employees of RT, the Russian state media) for
funneling at least $9.7 million
into a Tennessee-based company (identified as Tenet Media). They created
propaganda and
fake news content pushing unverifiable narratives favorable to pro-Russian and pro-G.O.P. interests, especially as it relates to race and voter suppression.
Russian propaganda agents paid right-wing influencers:
Tim Pool,
Benny Johnson,
Dave Rubin,
and an A.I. and video effects team to create and distribute
phony and doctored propaganda videos.
90% of the money came from Russian sources
the bank records prove it flat out.
This is obviously Trump but very hard to prove.
The videos were ordered with explicit instructions to
“divide and distract,”
create strategies to justify
attacking immigrants and immigration,
“white victimhood,”
censorship,
culture war issues,
and were “consistent” with aims to sow discord and
“riotous violence.”
This is provable covert funding from a foreign state actor — Russia
caught red-handed channeling money through “domestic” media actors and influencers. That is
a troll farm
or influence operation, with GOP election influence and hateful propaganda content.
Good Ole Charlie Kirk was a tireless, hate-filled troll.
He forced Turning Point USA / Turning Point Action to hire teenagers in Arizona
to post coordinated attacks on Joe Biden and related topics on their own personal social media accounts. Some of those posts were identical (copy/paste), others were just petty,
vindictive personal attacks
aimed at youth and college students but also the elderly
anyone who
“may have been undecided or easily intimidated.”
It got back to Charlie Kirk via right-wing lawyers.
“Classic troll-farm playbooks: enlist many (often younger) people to amplify hate and racist,
anti-gay messaging inauthentically.”
Turning Point’s founder, Charlie Kirk, of course was given talking points to defend it, calling it “sincere political activism,” but the mechanics and scale put it clearly in troll-farm territory.
It was an
ever-expanding troll farm
that got caught and shut down mid-stride.
Those were amateurs though.
Project Lakhta / Elena Khusyaynova – The Infrastructure of Troll Ops
Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova,
an operative and accountant based in St. Petersburg, was charged in 2018 with
conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
by interfering in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
She managed the funds of Project Lakhta, a multi-million-dollar social media campaign,
creating fake friend profiles,
spreading hateful anti-Democrat misinformation,
and sowing racial and class-based, hateful,
unfounded bigotry
and misinformation.
Again, Project Lakhta is tied to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and to Russian oligarch
Yevgeny Prigozhin,
who was indicted for funding and organizing election interference operations.
The G.O.P. was aware and complicit on many levels. There is no way Trump would not have known and/or personally funded these hate-filled conspiracy theory screeds.
Regardless of what's provable directly, the relevance of this is the clear politically backed infrastructure:
Money laundering,
fake accounts,
propaganda ops
that foreign influence campaigns use fake news and post that align with or amplify GOP messages of fascism and fear-mongering.
Also don't overlook the fact that Russia has the largest and most powerful organized crime syndicate in the world.
Their banks have little to no regulations and there is no separation between the banks and the state.
Multiple U.S. intelligence and congressional reports over the years have documented that
Russian trolls,
bots,
proxies, and state media focused heavily on supporting pro-Trump content and narratives (undermining Hillary, pushing divisive issues, etc.).
One Columbia University study found that betting market odds for registered and known Republicans dropped obviously and significantly on every Russian holiday (when troll activity decreased), proving the tangible effect of foreign trolling aligning with Republican financial gains and the power of their influence as well as the ubiquity in its nature..
.. Columbia SIPA
The ODNI “Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections” report stated that Russian state media, trolls, and online proxies published negative ageist and health content about Biden and simultaneously amplified pro-Trump messaging.
..Director of National Intelligence
Trump and Putin had face-to-face conversations and exchanged wants-and-needs lists to promote their own personal agendas, and that fine except when the party favors like caviar and champagne are funded by U.S. taxpayer money. It's clear and obvious to anyone with a brain.
Because of the clandestine nature of most of these operations, much remains hidden, redacted, or based on inference from simple reliable digital forensics, internal communications, leaks , the first hand accounts of caterers and aids as well as posted platform data.
Putin was head of the KGB and is of course a known unapologetic killer. He has ordered the deaths of many opponents.
He and ****** are Trumps' heroes as Trump has stated openly many times.
It's everywhere too , even in places you would think would be safe like rural white middle America and surrounding areas of populace cities like Nashville, now renown for white flight like never seen before. A perfect target.
@TENGOP / Tennessee GOP Fake Account
In 2016, an account called @TENGOP appeared to be the Twitter account of the Tennessee Republican Party, but it turned out to be operated by Putin-directed Russian operatives linked to
the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a known Kremlin-tied “troll farm.” Kremlin Troll farms targeting undereducated white MAGA prospects in an NRA Christo-fascist country and western hot bed. Justifying and amplifying racist , hate-filled anti-white propaganda.
DFRLab
Tennessean
This account was used to promote divisive content, including false “voter fraud” claims.
Tennessean
NBC News
Researchers have found bot armies creating “fake news” on platforms like X (Twitter), amplifying pro-GOP or pro-Trump content.
Some of these appear to be domestic (i.e., U.S.) operations, others foreign ones, but they function similarly — coordinating inauthentic behavior, spreading propaganda.
CNBC
Example: a study found a network of coordinated inauthentic actors pushing misleading or partisan content in lead-ups to elections, consistently favoring conservative MAGA-approved messages.
arXiv
The pre-Trump second term , legitimate, DOJ announced plans to continue seizing internet domains connected to
“Doppelganger,” a Russian-backed influence network
pushing propaganda in the U.S., using AI, fake personas, etc.
They identified and shut down not , 10 not a dozen
not 24
but 32 known sites and domains.
These 32 were the most obvious and egregious of the offenders.
Of course the new weaponized Trump DOJ pulled the funding from this and it stropped all together.
Who knows how many others they were investigating and how many MORE have sprung up now that their is no regulation or indictment.
Department of Justice
The DOJ has claimed these operations are aimed at influencing U.S. elections and amplifying divisive, pro-Russia narratives.
Department of Justice
German Marshall Fund
There is so, so much more. We are headed to a true authoritarian dictatorship and full-on Christo-fascist McCarthy fear-backed police state.
Trump is not going to walk away from the White House, especially not after expanding, fortifying, and renovating it on his watch and to his specifications.
